Key Events

Jury dismissed

Mr Justice King dismisses the jury until 10.30am tomorrow, and that’s it for today.

16:47Jonathan Humphries

Cross-examination

Mr Miskin, representing Kendrick, will now ask some questions.

He asks her to confirm that she told police her son had a big mouth and talked a lot.

CM: “There were various comings and goings on the 14th, and you told police,using the same expression you have used today, that you had no concept of time?”

PK: “Yes.”

Mr Miskin suggests that Kendrick did not say the lads on the bike had been shooting at him, but that they had pulled a gun on him.

PK: “I’m sorry I can’t remember.”

CM: “Luke can come and go without you knowing?”

Ms Kendrick says that she would not be able to tell whether he had left the house from the living room.

Mr Miskin asks how long it was that the police van parked for a few minutes at the top of her road, before she left for her daughter Tina Walker’s address.

Ms Kendrick says she could not be precise but described it as a “good while.”

Mr Miskin asks about the phone call.

PK: “As I told the police, I wasn’t sure if it was on the landline or if it was the lad at the door, it was all confusing and all I know is a male voice said get out of the house they’re coming to kill you. All I was thinking was that Luke was shot, and he was dead.”

Mr Miskin suggests that while she was at Tina Walker’s house, Ms Walker was called by Luke Kendrick.

PK: “Luke said on the phone to Tina, is my mum there. She said yes, and the police are here as well, someone has been shot and we thought it was you. He said he was a couple of pence short for a taxi but then he was there in a few minutes.”

That concludes Mr Miskin’s cross examination.

Mr Power has some further questions.

He asks about her comment to Mr Miskin that her son “has a big mouth and goes off on one.”

Ms Kendrick: “Luke has not had the best of everything in life, through no fault of his own, and it is my fault. He had a car crash, and he has not been right since that car crash. I have had consultations with the doctor, there is something wrong.”

Mr Power asks her to stick to the question of what she meant by a ‘big mouth.’

PK: “When he goes off on one he will go to his room and slam his door.”NP: “He gets angry?”

PK: “It’s not so much angry, it’s more of a frustration, like an anxiety thing.”

That concludes Ms Kendrick’s evidence, and the court is cleared while she is allowed to leave.

16:32Jonathan Humphries

“They’re coming down to kill me”

Ms Kendrick says she tried to call her son’s phone, which she had given to him but got no answer.

Mr Power asks if she received a phone call on her landline.

She says a male voice was shouting at her.

PK: “He was saying get out the house get out the house, and then a girl was at the door saying get out the house. They said, they’re coming down to kill me.”

Ms Kendrick says she left her house and went to her friend’s Jenny Wigley. Her daughter Tina Walker arrived, and she phones the police. She then left for Miss Walker’s address, where they encountered Luke Kendrick.

Mr Power asks how long she was at Tina Walker’s house before Luke Kendrick arrived. She says no more than 20 minutes.

The court hears that police showed up, and one officer had a body camera.

NP: “Do you remember that at about midnight the police arrested Luke and took him away?”

PK: “That’s correct.”

NP: “How far away from Tina’s house do you live?”

PK: “Not far, it would have took me a couple of minutes.”

That concludes Mr Power’s questions

16:29Jonathan Humphries

“Luke has been shot”

Mr Power refers Ms Kendrick to her statement. He asks if she would agree that things when she made that statement were fresher in her mind than now.

She agrees.

Mr Power says that in that statement, Ms Kendrick said Luke told her the gun had been fired.

She is allowed to refer to her statement to refresh her memory.

Ms Kendrick is handed a copy, and confirms that it bears her signature and is dated July 15, 2015.

Mr Power points to a sentence which says: “He then told me that a couple of lads had a machete and a gun and had been shooting at him.”

Ms Kendrick says she told her son to stay in and not go out, but was unsure whether he heard her.

She says she did not see him again that day.

NP: “Did there come a time when the police came?”

PK: “When I was talking to my neighbour, a police van came to the top of the street and parked for a few minutes.”

She says she cannot remember whether Luke Kendrick was in the house at that time.

NP: “Did there come a time when a woman from the next street called Seline came along?”

PK: “Yes. She told me Luke had been shot.”

PK: “As soon as Seline knocked on my door and said Luke had been shot I rang Tina.”

Ms Kendrick says several people knocked on her door giving her “mixed messages”.

She begins to cry: “I was panicking and I didn’t know what was happening.”

Mr Power asks if she later saw her son.

PK: “Yes it was a relief.”

16:19Jonathan Humphries

“He said two lads pointed a gun in his face”

Mr Power asks her who lived in the house at the time.

She says: “Me and my son Luke.”

Mr Power asks which type of car her son had at the time.

Ms Kendrick said: “A silver Audi.”

NP: “On the day he was arrested for about how long had he had the car?”

PK: “I can’t be specific, about a couple of days, a week, something like that.”

The court hears Luke Kendrick claimed he got the car for “a bargain.”

NP: “When Luke bought the car was he disqualified from driving?”

PK: “Yes he was.”

NP: “What about insurance?”

PK: “I did say you can’t have that outside the house, it’s not taxed. He said it is taxed, I am going to get Tina to insure it. He said could you ask her for me mum?”

The court heard Tina Walker, Luke’s sister, initially said no to this request but then agreed, on the condition the car was kept outside his mother’s house.

Mr Power says the car was insured on July 9.

NP: “It was on July 14 Luke was arrested, that was a Tuesday. I just want you to think about Monday the 13 to Friday the 10th. Was the car outside your house?”

PK: “Yes It was there every day.”

Mr Power asks if Ms Kendrick went out on the day her son was arrested.

PK: “I can’t remember..I remember standing outside the house talking to one of my neighbours.”

She says her son had been in the house but may have gone out.

“Luke comes and goes, comes and goes.”

Mr Power asks where he was at lunchtime.

PK: “I think he was out, I can’t remember… I think it was round about dinner time, I might have seen Luke. I was talking to my next door neighbour. It was a nice day. I can’t really remember much.”

NP: “Did there come to a point where Luke told you something had happened when he was out?”PK: “Yes.”

NP: “I want to take this slowly and in stages. What time did he tell you this?”PK: “I have no concept of time, I couldn’t tell you.”

NP: “Did he tell you something had happened when he was away from the house?”

PK: “Yes.”

She agrees that this conversation happened some time before “teatime.”

PK: “He seemed a bit upset, I asked him what was wrong…

NP: “What did he say please?PK: “He said some lads on a bike had just pointed a gun at his face and a machete, I didn’t take much notice at the time, I didn’t take him seriously, Luke exaggerates a lot.”

NP: “Did he say how many guns or what kind of gun?”

PK: “No.”NP: “Did he say how many lads?”

PK: “Two.”

NP: “Did he say what they were on?”

PK: “A motorbike.”

Mr Kendrick becomes upset.

PK: “It’s very confusing. It’s very distressing, a life has been taken.”

She is offered a glass of water.

16:11Jonathan Humphries

Kendrick’s mum on the stand

The jury are asked to leave while Mr Langley is escorted from court.

We appear to be ready for the next witness, who will also give evidence from behind screens.

The jury are called back into court.

The next witness is Pamela Kendrick, Luke Kendrick’s mother.

She is sworn in by the court usher.

Ms Kendrick tells the court she was living on Wharfedale Street at the time of Vinny’s alleged murder.

15:53Jonathan Humphries

Black BMW

Mr Langley says he was overtaken by the BMW and stopped behind it at traffic lights on Speke Road.

“I thought there was two people in the car, and she (Ms Lamb) pointed out there was three people. I could see his head pop up in the back seat.”

The car turned towards Aigburth and Garston way.

Mr Power says that is all he needs to ask about the X1.

NP: “Had you noticed any other cars parked in Wharfedale Street?”

SL: “Yeah an Audi A3.”

Mr Power asks about the parking situation on Wharfedale Street at that time.

Mr Langley says: “You had to fight for your parking space.”

That concludes Mr Power’s questions.

Mr Miskin, representing Luke Kendrick, will ask some questions.

He asks about how Mr Langley reversed out of the space.

Mr Langley says he looked first over his left shoulder, and then over his right.

Mr Miskin asks if the second man, who emerged from the house, had originally been in the car.

He says he was not sure. Mr Langley says the man wa crouched over and “moving with haste.”

Mr Miskin asks some questions to clarify the location of Mr Langley’s car and the BMW on Wharfedale Street.

Mr Miskin: “Did you partner say look there’s Luke?”

SL: “No she said look there’s someone on the back seat, something like that.”

Mr Miskin asks about the time of that incident.

SL: “It was about 8.45pm, as Holby City was still on.”

Mr Miskin suggests it could have been later than that.

Mr Langley: “No more than five minutes, max.”

That concludes Mr Miskin’s questions.

Mr Power just clarifies which door the first person he saw got out of.

He says the man got out of a rear passenger door, went into the house, and then returned and got into the driver’s door.

He says the second man got into a passenger door, but he could not recall which one.

That concludes Mr Langley’s evidence.

15:34

Return from break

The jury are called back in and we will hear from the next witness, Stuart Langley.

Mr Langley is sworn in.

Mr Power points to an area on a map, Cavalier Drive.

“This is an area quite well know to you Mr Langley?”

SL: “It is indeed.”

NP: “On July 14 last year you were reversing your car in Wharfedale Street, you had been visiting your partner Carys Lamb and you had been watching Holby City on television?”

SL: “Yes.”

Mr Langley says he was in the car with Ms Lamb, when the pair noticed a black BMW X1.

NP: “How old in terms of model was this car?”

SL: “No more than five years old.”

Mr Langley said it had tinted windows, and was facing towards Vineyard Street.

NP: “Did you see anything happen as far as the BMW was concerned?”

SL: “The driver’s side door opened. One gentleman got out, ran round the back of his car and into the house.”

NP: “Was there anything remarkable about the house at the time he went into it?”

SL: “No”

NP: “Was there anything remarkable about it subsequently?”

SL: “Afterwards? The police presence, it had a smashed a window.”

Mr Power asks about the man who got out of the car.

Mr Langley says he had a blue t-shirt, blue shorts with a yellow trim, and “reddy blond hair.”

He says the man was aged in his mid-20s to late 30s. He also was wearing white trainers.

Mr Langley says he had never seen the man before.

Mr Power: “Did the man go straight into the house?”

SL: “Yes he went in straight away.. He ran back out after a matter of minutes.”

Mr Langley says a second man came out of the house, and the pair got back into the Black BMW.

NP: “Did you eventually make your way to the junction with Blackburne Street?”

SL:” I had done a three point turn and by the time the BMW had caught up with me.”

15:18Jonathan Humphries

Short break

Mr Justice King dismisses the jury for a short break while screens are erected for the next witness.

15:18Jonathan Humphries

Highly charged crowd

Mr Power will now read the statement of a PC McAllister, of Merseyside Police.

The statement says he was on patrol with a PC Gould when they were deployed to Banks Road in Garston to a road traffic collision, and they were told by a force incident manager that a male had been spotted with a firearm.

He describes arriving at the scene and finding an Audi on top of a Scrambler bike.

“By attention was then drawn to the screams of a male, who I could not see at the time. I then saw a male about 6ft tall and wearing Adidas shorts. He was pacing up and down and appeared aggressive towards us.

“Due to his demeanour he was detained and searched. He said his cousin Vinny was being treated in a nearby Garden.”

PC McAllister says he went into the Garden and saw a male being treated. He noticed the male had gunshot wounds to his chest.

“I emerged from the garden and saw a group of males who were all highly charged.”

He says he searched the scene and found a bag containing mobile phones and a small amount of cannabis.

That concludes the statement.

15:17Jonathan Humphries

“You better save him”

Mr Power is now reading the statement of a paramedic who attended the scene called Kieron Byrne.

“Around 6.30pm I attended a regular caller in Critchley Road, Speke.”

Mr Power points out Critchley Road on a map for the jury.

“I was speaking to the caller’s neighbour. I heard a really loud noise and I turned to see a red scrambler bike… There was only one rider, and the male was wearing a grey hoodie. I could see he didn’t have a helmet. I would estimate it was going around 70mph. I made a comment to the neighbour, something like I bet I will be picking him up later.”

Mr Byrne says he later got called to a potential cardiac arrest relating to a motorbike crash in Banks Road.

He says he was called to Ms Smith’s garden, and spotted a red scrambler bike underneath an Audi.

“I could see he was alive as his lungs were inflating but he didn’t say anything. There were a lot of people around and there appeared to be a lot of aggression towards me, people were shouting abuse at me and saying I better save him…

“He was ashen, a horrible grey colour, and I couldn’t see any wounds so I assumed he had massive internal injuries.”

Mr Byrne says his colleagues arrived and he removed Vinny’s clothing to find what he recognised as a gunshot wound to his chest.

He says Vinny went into cardiac arrest and was loaded into an ambulance.

Mr Byrne says he remained at the scene to collect equipment, and later heard the male had died.

14:52Jonathan Humphries

“My mate has been shot”

Mr Power is now reading the statement of Thomas Matambo.

Mr Matambo says he had returned from a shopping trip and came across an Audi on top of a scrambler bike, in Banks Road, and slowed his car.

“At this point I had not passed the Audi when a male who I know as Frankie came running towards my car, he was frantic...when Frankie was running towards my vehicle I opened my front passenger side window. He said my friend’s just been shot can you take me to York Street please? Can you hurry up, be quick.

“He was in a state of shock, he kept saying sh** but did not seem to be in pain.”

Mr Matambo says he took Frankie, later identified as Francis Humphries, to York Street where Mr Humphries and Vinny Waddington both lived.

14:52Jonathan Humphries

Ms Smith’s statement

Mr Power will now read Ms Smith’s witness statement.

“I had been to the local shops with Paul, he had gone for a lie down and I was settling in the living room on the computer. I heard motorbike engines but that’s not unusual round here… I then heard tyres screeching, they sounded like car tyres. I heard several loud noises like a car backfiring.”

“I remember seeing two lads going by the side of our house, one wearing a motorbike helmet.”

She describes the first male as wearing a white and coloured motorbike helmet.

She says male 2 had broad shoulders.

“I immediately saw a male on the floor in our garden...he was stretched out on his front with his left arm twisted behind him. He was not moving, at first I thought he was pretending but then I thought he was not breathing. I saw him take two breaths, I saw his back rise and fall…”

“I have since heard this male and had been shot, and saw on Facebook messages saying RIP Vinny. I realised then he was Vinny Waddington and I knew his mum, Lisa Crawley. She died leaving three children.”

14:42Jonathan Humphries

999 Call

She can be heard saying: “There’s a motorbike crashed into my front fence and there’s a lad in my front garden, he look’s in a bad way.”

The operator says: “Is he breathing?”

OS: “I don’t know, I don’t think so.”

She says she thinks he crashed a motorbike.

999 Operator: “Is there any obvious injuries?”OS: “I don’t know, I can see blood, but I can’t see his face he has a hood up?”

999: “Is he breathing?”

OS: “I don’t think so.”

Ms Smith: “He is breathing in big gasps.”

Ms Smith is heard passing the phone to Mr Hankinson.

PH: “Can you just get hear quick as you can?”

The 999 operator is trying to get Ms Smith to perform CPR on Vinny.

His family are getting upset in the public gallery.

The operator is counting out 1,2,3,4 and urging Ms Smith to perform chest compressions.

Mr Hankinson takes over.

“I don’t know if he has neck injuries, I don’t know if he flew over my fence… I can’t find a pulse.”

999 Operator: “That’s why we need to do this sir.”

The sound of motorbike engines drowns out the voices.

PH: “There is loads of bikes all around us.”

999: “What is the patient doing at the moment?”

PH: “He’s breathing, he is breathing but he is face down. I have put his head to one side. He is breathing but he is struggling like.”

999: “I need you to tell me every time he takes a breath.”

PH: “He has not done it for a few seconds now.”

The sound of the paramedics can be heard arriving at the scene. That ends the highly distressing recording, which has left several people in the public gallery in tears.

14:36Jonathan Humphries

Case called back on

Mr Justice King has returned to court and the defendant’s are back in the dock.

The members of the jury are taking their seats.

Nigel Power, QC, will read some written statements.

The first is from a Paul Hankinson, made on July 15.

Mr Hankinson lives with his partner, Olive Smith, on the corner of Banks Lane and Banks Road.

The statement says: “I had been out shopping with Olive and returned home at 20.00. I suffer with pain in my leg and took some painkillers and went to lie down. My bedroom window looks over Wingfield Road. When I went to lay down I remember being disturbed by the sound of Quad motorbikes, this is not unusual but it was going up and down and annoying me.”

Mr Hankinson says he then heard a loud bang, and began to walk downstairs.

He says he then spotted several males appearing to make their way into his back garden through frosted glass windows, and says he could make out the shape of a multicoloured motorbike helmet.

“I went into the living room but Olive had already gone outside. I heard Olive shout Paul, you best phone an ambulance. I saw a male lying on the floor appearing contorted in shape. He was lying on his front and wasn’t saying anything. He appeared to wearing something over his head, maybe a peaked hat.”

Mr Hankinson said he spoke to the operator and was asked if he was breathing.

“I gently turned him onto his back but his breaths were short and far apart.”

Mr Power now plays a recording of the 999 call made by Olive Smith.

14:03Jonathan Humphries

Recap of morning’s evidence

Not much went ahead this morning due to delays with getting the case started, but we heard some significant evidence from witness Beverley Jackson.

Ms Jackson, the sister of Amanda Jackson who gave evidence on Friday afternoon, described hearing the sound of what she believed was a car crashing, before hearing a sound which she thought was a car backfiring.

She walked out of a house overlooking Banks Road, and told the jury of seeing three men exit a crashed Audi, which she later realised had a scrambler bike jammed beneath it, and run past her.

She told the court that one of the males appeared to be carrying something with what looked like the barrel of a gun and a strap.

Ms Jackson also described the moment a youth emerged from the garden of a nearby house to and said “He’s in the garden, help me he’s been shot.”

The court heard that other males began to arrive at the scene in a Black car and on Scrambler bikes, to try and remove the bike which had been jammed under the Audi.

They were unsuccessful and left the scene before police arrived.

We should hear from other witnesses this afternoon.

Jonathan Humphries

Cross-examination

Mr McDermott asks her to look at a copy of her original witness statement.

Ms Jackson says she does not have a copy in front of her, and there is a brief delay while the statement is retrieved.

A statement is produced.

Mr McDermott asks her to confirm that is her original statement, which she had signed.

He points to a section which describes the first male emerging from the Audi as white , thin, and around 5ft 8 to 5ft 10.

JM “It’s not a trick question but would your recollection then have been more accurate than your recollection today?”

BJ: “Yes.”

He reads from further descriptions of the other males in the vehicles.

The male with the gun was described as taller than the first male.

JM: “If the first male was as much as 5ft10 would in then logically follow that he would be around 5ft 11 or bigger?”

BJ: “Yes.”

Mr McDermott refers to the description of the third male’s beard.

JM “We are not talking about designer stubble, we are talking about a full bushy beard?”

BJ: “Yes.”

He asks her to confirm that the third male had thinning hair, according to her recollection.

That concludes Mr McDermott’s questions.

Mr Miskin, representing Luke Kendrick, will ask some questions.

He asks her to confirm which directions she approached the Audi from.

Ms Jackson agrees it was broad daylight when she went into the street.

CM: “They all pass you don’t they? The closest you get to them is right by you?”

BJ: “Yes.”

He asks her to confirm where she was stood.

Ms Jackson: “I was in the middle of the road, I thought there had been an accident.”

CM: “You were, in fact, I think with your father?”

BJ: “He was with me but he was ahead of me, he was heading to the house on the corner.”

Mr Miskin asks her to confirm where the Audi was when she first looked out of the Window.

She agrees it was half on the road and half on the pavement.

In the photos the Audi does not appear to be in this position.

Ms Jackson agrees with his suggestion that it must have been moved.

Mr Miskin asks her to confirm that other people arrived after the collision, including the male Frankie Moran, mentioned earlier.

CM: “You said you didn’t think you would recognise them again, but you did have them under observation for some time, and they passed very close to you. Were you ever asked to go on an identity parade?”

BJ: “No.”

That concludes cross-examination.

Mr Power says he has no re-examination for Ms Jackson, and her evidence is complete.

Mr Justice King adjourns the case for lunch, and the jury are asked to return at 2.15pm

12:49Jonathan Humphries

“Come and help me, He’s been shot, ”

Mr Power asks what happened next.

Ms Jackson said she saw a male come from the garden of a nearby house.

NP: “What happened when this man came out?”

BJ: “He shouted at me, hey girl he’s in the garden, come and help me he’s been shot. As he was talking to me a lady came out of an opposite housing estate, and she approached the youth and said I’m a nurse. I went back to the house and my sister was on the phone to the police.”

She says the youth was tanned, had a skin head and bushy eyebrows. He had gloves on and a white shirt says Ms Jackson.

“A black fiesta came up Banks Road.. a man got out and approached the Audi and tried to get the bike from under it.”

Mr Power asks if a man she knew was called Frankie approached from the opposite direction.

Ms Jackson says yes, but says Frankie did not try and removed the scrambler bike from beneath the Audi.

NP: “Did he become upset by the knowledge that someone had been hurt?”

BJ: “Yes very upset.”

NP: “In fact you found out later the person who had been shot was Vincent Waddington?”

BJ: “Yes, I knew him a number of years.”

That concludes Mr Power’s questions.

Mr McDermott, representing Bate, will ask Ms Jackson a few questions.

12:39Jonathan Humphries

Three men flee the scene

Mr Power asks Ms Jackson to look at a photo of the Audi, which was found with a red scrambler bike jammed underneath it.

He asks if that is what she saw when she looked out of the window.

She says yes, but she only saw the bike later.

Ms Jackson says she left the house and saw people running away.

NP: “Where did the first person come from please?”

BJ: “From the back passenger side.”

NP: “In the photographs the boot (on the Audi) is up, was it up when you saw it?

BJ: “No it wasn’t up.”

Ms Jackson says she walked towards the car from the back.

NP: “Did you notice anything about the first male?”

BJ: “He was already running..He was white, I would say he was slight aged in his early 20s.”

NP: “Do you remember what he was wearing?”BJ: “He was wearing grey cut off shorts and a grey hoodie.”

Ms Jackson says the male ran off down Banks Lane.

NP: “Which was the next door to open please?

BJ: “The passenger on the front.”

NP: “Was there much time between the first and second exiter?”BJ: “No they were nearly the same.”

Ms Jackson said the second male appeared to go to run but went back to the car.

Mr Power asks if he was carrying anything when he came back.

Ms Jackson “His left arm was stiff and straight, he seemed to carrying something, I could see a strap hanging down and like a barrel thing going towards his leg.”

She describes him as white, of slight build, aged in his late teens or early 20s. She says he was dressed all in black. She says she would not recognise him again.

Mr Power asks about the third person who left the car from the driver’s door.

NP: “Did you notice anything about the way he got out of the driver’s door?”

BJ: “He seemed to have trouble getting out of the door at first, he seemed to fall and he put his hands out, but then he straightened himself.”

Mr Power suggests the bike blocking his exit could have explained him struggling to get out.

Ms Jackson agrees.

She said this male was stockier than the other two, and had darker skin, a dark beard and short hair.

She says he had a pale t-shirt, red shorts and an open-zipped hoodie. She told police she probably would not recognise that man again.

12:33KEY EVENT

First Witness

The first witness is Beverley Jackson, the sister of Amanda Jackson who gave evidence on Friday.

She is giving evidence behind a set of screens.

Ms Jackson is sworn in by the court Usher.

Mr Power asks her to confirm she was with her sister at an address that looks out onto Banks Road, where Vinny was killed.

Mr Power asks her to point out on a map where the house was.

NP: “At about 8pm did you hear Scrambler bikes going up and down the road?

BJ: “Yes.”NP: “Is that a usual or unusual occurrence?”

BJ: “Usual.”

She says the bikes disappeared and returned around five minutes later, and were riding alongside a car.

“The car was behind them but pulled up and was driving alongside them.”

NP: “Shortly after did you hear a noise? What noise did you hear?”BJ: “A crash, like a car crash.”

She says she looked through a Bay window.

NP: “Did you hear another noise?”

Ms Jackson: “There was a loud sound that sounded like a car backfiring, like sharp.”

12:33Jonathan Humphries

Court gets underway

Mr Justice King has entered court and we should be ready to go shortly.

A minor issue has arisen and the Judge has agreed to give a 15 minute break.

We are back in court and we should finally get underway shortly.

Mr Justice King is back in court, and the defendants are in the dock.

The members of the jury are taking their seats

11:59Jonathan Humphries

Another slight delay

A minor issue has arisen and the Judge has agreed to give a 15 minute break.

11:39Jonathan Humphries

Court about to begin

The case has been delayed as the Judge dealt with another matter, but we should be starting in the next few minutes.

We should be starting by hearing evidence from another witness.

Mr Justice King has entered court and we should be ready to go shortly.

10:33Jonathan Humphries

Morning

I am back in Liverpool Crown Court for day three of the Vinny Waddington murder trial.

We have now begun to hear from witnesses who saw the aftermath of the shooting.

On Friday Thomas Kavanagh, who had been at his partner’s address in Banks Road, told the jury how he heard a bang and looked out of the porch to see a silver car with what appeared to be a red bike jammed underneath.

He also reported seeing a man appear to take something from the driver’s side door of the car before running off, and then hearing a man later identified as Mr Humphries shouting “my mate has been shot.”

Amanda Jackson, who lives on Banks Road, told the jury how she also heard a bang and looked out of her window to see the Audi.

She reported seeing three men get out and run away, with one returning and retrieving what she described as a gun from the driver’s side window.

A 999 call made by Ms Jackson was played to the court, which captured the sound of screaming and motorbike engines as several males arrived at the scene to try and recover the scrambler bike from beneath the car.

The case is due to begin at 10.30am.

A reminder; the case is being tried before Judge Mr Justice Timothy King, with Nigel Power, QC, prosecuting.

Day Three

The trial of two men accused of shooting dead Garston teen Vinny Waddington will enter its third day at Liverpool Crown Court this morning.

Ryan Bate, 24, and Luke Kendrick, 25, both deny Vinny’s murder and the attempted wounding with intent to cause GBH of his friend, Francis Humphries.

Vinny, 18, was riding on the back of a Scrambler motorbike driven by Mr Humphries when the pair were rammed by an Audi A3 in Banks Road, Garston, on July 14 last year.

Seconds after the collision Vinny and Mr Humphries were blasted with a shotgun at close range, causing fatal injuries to Vinny’s chest and leaving Mr Humphries needing hospital treatment for pellet wounds.

The prosecution say Kendrick and Bate were inside the Audi along with a third man, David Ungi jnr, who has yet to be arrested.

The jury has heard mobile phones belonging to Kendrick and Bate were recovered inside the abandoned Audi, as well as DNA matching Ungi.

A fingerprint matching Bate was recovered from a door and gunshot residue was found on Kendrick.